Tom Tresansky
Staff Software Engineer at Gradle Technologies
City of Schenectady, New York, United States
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Top SchoolTom Tresansky is a Staff Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building reliable backend systems, currently advancing Gradle’s core build tooling from Schenectady, NY. He progressed through senior engineering and principal application roles in the New York State Unified Court System, bringing deep Java/Java EE expertise to large, mission-critical systems before joining Gradle. At Gradle he has contributed to the flagship gradle/gradle repo, improving error reporting and the ResolutionFailureHandler to make build failures clearer and more actionable for developers. Tom pairs technical leadership with an MBA in IT Management, enabling him to translate complex engineering challenges into pragmatic, auditable solutions. Colleagues rely on him for methodical refactors that increase clarity and long-term maintainability in foundational developer tooling.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA IT Management, Master of Business Administration - MBA IT Management at University at AlbanyBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (20)
dependency-management10
java10
javas10
error-handling10
gradlew10
reporting-services10
gradle10
dictionary9
mockito9
eclipse9
build-automation8
generics6
highlighting6
jpa6
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gradle/gradle
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Adaptable, fast automation for all
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1995 reviews, 1791 commits, 548 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily contributed to refactoring and cleaning up the `ResolutionFailureHandler` code and various other core classes, as well as implementing the handling of errors when generating reports in the build process. They focused on improving the consistency, accuracy, and clarity of the error messages displayed by the Gradle build tool. These changes included restructuring the class hierarchy and adding the ability to present all relevant error information in the reporting process for use by developers.
pythongradlegroovyautomationjava
tresat/gradle-schemaspy-plugin
Mar 2015 - Sep 2021
Contributions:22 commits, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 6 years 7 months
schemaspyjavagradlegradle-plugin
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